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    Scoffers
    mariokiefer
    • 7 days ago
    • 1 min

    Scoffers

    “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” ~2 Peter 3:3-3:4 #FavoriteQuotes
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    Strange
    mariokiefer
    • Jun 20
    • 1 min

    Strange

    “And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.” ~ Exodus 2:22 #FavoriteQuotes
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    Everyone's A Critic
    mariokiefer
    • Jun 13
    • 1 min

    Everyone's A Critic

    Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations #FavoriteQuotes
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    The Majority
    mariokiefer
    • Jun 6
    • 1 min

    The Majority

    “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” - Marcus Aurelius, Mediations #FavoriteQuotes
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    Expensive
    mariokiefer
    • May 30
    • 1 min

    Expensive

    "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone." - Frederic Bastiat #FavoriteQuotes
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    Childish
    mariokiefer
    • May 23
    • 1 min

    Childish

    “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. “ ~1 Corinthians 13:11 #FavoriteQuotes
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    Cruel Kindness
    mariokiefer
    • May 16
    • 1 min

    Cruel Kindness

    “Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune #FavoriteQuotes
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    Oh, Goodness!
    mariokiefer
    • May 9
    • 1 min

    Oh, Goodness!

    “But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.” ~ the character Jubal Harshaw in ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’ by Robert Heinlein. #FavoriteQuotes
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    Wasted Perfection
    mariokiefer
    • May 2
    • 1 min

    Wasted Perfection

    “It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.” ~ Meditations, Marcus Aurelius #FavoriteQuotes
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    An Honest Living
    mariokiefer
    • Apr 25
    • 1 min

    An Honest Living

    “We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.” ~ George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier #FavoriteQuotes
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    Gang Wars
    mariokiefer
    • Mar 14
    • 1 min

    Gang Wars

    “Perhaps . . . that’s all that government is — just a gang with the most men, the most money, and the better arms.” ~ the character, Father Daniel, The Fifth (2021) #FavoriteQuotes
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    Power
    mariokiefer
    • Feb 28
    • 1 min

    Power

    "We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing ... The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no on
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    Hallmark
    mariokiefer
    • Feb 21
    • 1 min

    Hallmark

    “Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime . . .” — Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, dissenting Ginzberg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463 (1966) #FavoriteQuotes
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    Ideas
    mariokiefer
    • Feb 14
    • 1 min

    Ideas

    “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” — Joseph Stalin General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879 - 1953 #FavoriteQuotes
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    The Birth of Fury
    mariokiefer
    • Feb 7
    • 1 min

    The Birth of Fury

    “It was in my anger that she was conceived. And it was in my rage that she was born. Through that anger; through that rage, I invited her.” ~ the character Hector/Alejandro in “The Ordinary Monster” #FavoriteQuotes
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    Humane
    mariokiefer
    • Jan 31
    • 1 min

    Humane

    “. . .it was easier to be humane when one was not human.” ~ the character Nergal from “The Fifth” #FavoriteQuotes
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    Permits
    mariokiefer
    • Jan 24
    • 1 min

    Permits

    “Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit.” - Robert A. Heinlein, Author, ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’. #FavoriteQuotes
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    Secrecy
    mariokiefer
    • Jan 17
    • 1 min

    Secrecy

    Secrecy begets tyranny. ~Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land #FavoriteQuotes
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    Insanity
    mariokiefer
    • Jan 10
    • 1 min

    Insanity

    "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~often attributed to Albert Einstein, but also to others, so - who really knows who said it first? #FavoriteQuotes
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    Nice Fellas
    mariokiefer
    • Jan 3
    • 1 min

    Nice Fellas

    “Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.” ~ Slim from, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men #FavoriteQuotes
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